Reported sale of RD-93 engines to Pakistan will benefit India: Russian experts

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, Russian defense experts said that the sale of RD-93 engines to Pakistan for integration into the JF-17 will actually benefit India and unjustly rejected the criticism of the Indian government with the opposition.

Pyotr Topychkanov, who presided on the new challenges department in South and Southeast Asia at the prestigious Moscow-based Primakov Institute, said, orum I don’t think the criticism here is right. PTI.

“The first shows that China and Pakistan have not yet managed to replace the Russian-Origin engine. Second, new aircraft will be familiar and predictable to India, especially for sharing the same engine and observed the operational use of India in May 2025 crisis (Sindor Operation).

Mr. Topychkanov demanded that China demanded RD-93 engines from Russia to supply RD-93 engines as a stopping range and the prime ministers of the transfer to Pakistan Atal Bihari VajPayee and Dr. Manmohan recalled that he was marked by the governments of UPA during Singh.

However, another specialist who does not want to be defined, said he remembered the discussions on the subject in an uncertain way. “While convincing that Moscow was completely commercial without the technology transfer of the RD-93 agreement of the RD-93 agreement, he was licensed to India for very superior RD-33 engines under tot.” The RD-93, which is produced by the Klimov Factory, has more pushing but more service life compared to the RD-33s compared to its base. While the RD-93 is a 2,200-hour service life, the RD-33s are 4,000 hours.

Within the scope of a triple Russia-China-Pakistan Agreement, Russia supplies RD-93 engines that have been completely collected since the beginning of the 2000s. Pakistan is now targeting a modified version that has not yet been developed.

There was no official word about sales.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, on Saturday, October 4, 2025, asked the government to answer why Russia’s “Once Upon Time The Most Reliable Strategic Allies” Russia provided military support to Pakistan by supplying the engines of China-made JF-17 fighter aircraft engines.

On Sunday, BJP gave reports on the supply of Russia to Pakistan’s JF-17 Jet engines, and accused the congress of choosing the “side of the enemy” instead of India, which brought the problem to the agenda on social media.